With some head tracking you could theoretically be surrounded by a globe of 3d video? I wonder if the image would be opaque enough as to block out all other sources of light, or is it only intended to overlay existing scenes? I'm so glad I have a girlfriend who is a techno junkie too, because when this thing goes mainstream I think I'll never leave my house.
Add this with the pressure sensitive body suit, the smell generating devices, and a few kleenex and well...
Wake up little SuSe, wake up little SuSe
Well, what're we gonna tell your mama, what're we gonna tell your papa
What're gonna tell our friends when they say 'ooh la la'
Wake up little SuSe, wake up little SuSe
I didn't even know the World Bank existed. Sounds like a pretty good idea from where I stand, and who said it's a space militarization program? It's a solar telescope, designed I presume for studying solar activity? This type of research benefits the "World." So, being funded by the World Bank doesn't sound like too much of a problem to me.
As for the priorities of the Chinese... well, most governments priorities will be out of whack until the world is threatened by imminent destruction.
"They're givin' me 10,000 watts a day you know, and I'm hot to trot. The next woman that takes me out is gonna light up like a pinball machine, and pay off in silver dollars. "
(One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest)
Yes. I mean no. I mean... I think I'm not sure. Well but... Maybe... Well if you put it that way... erm. No? *BBBBBBBBZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT*
"What is your favourite color?"
"Blue!... No Red!"
"Aaaaaaaaaahhhh..."
Well then I say we eradicate all deer! It's not like there aren't enough resources in the entire universe to support human expansion over the next infineum of years. We just need to hurry up and move on to the next space rock. Or invent a replicator.
That movie about the spoon was right, we really are a virus. At least, most of us are. We consume and move on, consume and move on. If the universe were a giant organism and we were a virus inside it, you better believe someone will be looking for a cure. *duck*
How far are we away from actually having Stillsuits? At least then we would be drinking out own wastes!
"STILLSUIT: body-enclosed garment invented on Arrakis. Its fabric is a micro-sandwich performing functions of heat dissipation and filter for bodily wastes. Reclaiming moisture is made available by tube from catchpockets."
Okay so...
"In astronomy, synchronous rotation is a planetological term describing a body orbiting another, where the orbiting body takes as long to rotate on its axis as it does to make one orbit; and therefore always keeps the same hemisphere pointed at the body it is orbiting.
The Moon is in synchronous rotation about the Earth. In fact, most moons in the solar system have synchronous rotation due to tidal locking."
(wikipedia)...this just means that one side of the moon is always facing the earth, but that doesn't mean that all sides do not receive light from the sun. I guess I just listened to too much Pink Floyd and got the wrong ideas implanted...:P
So one side always appears "dark" to us viewers on Earth, but is not always actually dark.
"...you get cycled in and out of full sunlight..."
Correct me if I am wrong but the moon does not spin on its axis. There is one permanantly dark side and one light. Which is why the "man on the moon" is always staring us down.:)
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Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these? Spurn me! I will rue the day!
With some head tracking you could theoretically be surrounded by a globe of 3d video? I wonder if the image would be opaque enough as to block out all other sources of light, or is it only intended to overlay existing scenes? I'm so glad I have a girlfriend who is a techno junkie too, because when this thing goes mainstream I think I'll never leave my house. Add this with the pressure sensitive body suit, the smell generating devices, and a few kleenex and well...
Wake up little SuSe, wake up little SuSe Well, what're we gonna tell your mama, what're we gonna tell your papa What're gonna tell our friends when they say 'ooh la la' Wake up little SuSe, wake up little SuSe
I didn't even know the World Bank existed. Sounds like a pretty good idea from where I stand, and who said it's a space militarization program? It's a solar telescope, designed I presume for studying solar activity? This type of research benefits the "World." So, being funded by the World Bank doesn't sound like too much of a problem to me. As for the priorities of the Chinese... well, most governments priorities will be out of whack until the world is threatened by imminent destruction.
"They're givin' me 10,000 watts a day you know, and I'm hot to trot. The next woman that takes me out is gonna light up like a pinball machine, and pay off in silver dollars. " (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest)
Yes. I mean no. I mean... I think I'm not sure. Well but... Maybe... Well if you put it that way... erm. No? *BBBBBBBBZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT* "What is your favourite color?" "Blue! ... No Red!"
"Aaaaaaaaaahhhh..."
Will this make laser tag more fun?
Well then I say we eradicate all deer! It's not like there aren't enough resources in the entire universe to support human expansion over the next infineum of years. We just need to hurry up and move on to the next space rock. Or invent a replicator.
That movie about the spoon was right, we really are a virus. At least, most of us are. We consume and move on, consume and move on. If the universe were a giant organism and we were a virus inside it, you better believe someone will be looking for a cure. *duck*
How far are we away from actually having Stillsuits? At least then we would be drinking out own wastes!
"STILLSUIT: body-enclosed garment invented on Arrakis. Its fabric is a micro-sandwich performing functions of heat dissipation and filter for bodily wastes. Reclaiming moisture is made available by tube from catchpockets."
Okay so... "In astronomy, synchronous rotation is a planetological term describing a body orbiting another, where the orbiting body takes as long to rotate on its axis as it does to make one orbit; and therefore always keeps the same hemisphere pointed at the body it is orbiting. The Moon is in synchronous rotation about the Earth. In fact, most moons in the solar system have synchronous rotation due to tidal locking." (wikipedia) ...this just means that one side of the moon is always facing the earth, but that doesn't mean that all sides do not receive light from the sun. I guess I just listened to too much Pink Floyd and got the wrong ideas implanted... :P
So one side always appears "dark" to us viewers on Earth, but is not always actually dark.
"...you get cycled in and out of full sunlight..." Correct me if I am wrong but the moon does not spin on its axis. There is one permanantly dark side and one light. Which is why the "man on the moon" is always staring us down. :)